Car-coupling tool



(No Model.)

B. KINT 8; J. W. HYDE.

GAE COUPLING TOOL.

No. 425,433. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND KINT AND JOHN W. HYDE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

CAR-COUPLING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Ala-425,433, dated April 15, 1890.

Application filed July 25, 1887.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDMOND KINT and JOHN W. HYDE, citizens of the United States,

andresidents of the city of Minneapolis, county of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Oar-Coupling Tool, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient instrument whereby cars provided with the common link-and-pin coupler may be coupled together without endangering the life of the brakeman.

It consists of the device hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like letters referring to like parts, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation, of a part of a car, showing our device in position for use.

A B O are parts of a common car and coupling.

D is the coupling-link, and Ethe coupling- F is the coupling-tool, which consists of a metallic rod provided with a hook f at one end and a handle f at the other, and the guard G, placed just below ihe handle. This rod is of a length sufiicient to reach, in the hands of a brakeman,from the outside of the car to the coupling-link.

H is a chain, a little longer than the rod, attached at one end to the guard G and at the other to a staple K in the platform of the car. This chain should be a little longer than the entire length of the rod in order to allow the necessary range of work.

L is a keeper staple or bar with a hole in it attached to the car-platform in any suitable convenient position and serves to hold the tool in a conveniently-accessible place when not in use.

I The chain prevents the tool from becoming Serial No. 245,289- (No model.)

lost or misplaced. One of these tools is to be attached to each end of every car on opposite sides of the coupling. No diiteren ce on which side of the train the brakeman may be, or which end he wants to couple, he will then always find a coupling-tool immediately at hand, which he can take out of its keeper and reach the coupling-link and guide it into its proper position without passing in between the cars. The way the chain is attached just below the handle or intermediate the handle and the point is a material feature, allowing the utmost freedom of movement to the tool without interference from the chain. This tool was designed especially to meet the necessities of existing conditions. The railroads of the country are stocked with freightcars having the common link-and-pin coupling. These cars vary indefinitely in size and relative height of couplings, which makes antomatic couplers difficult of application, and yet human life is made a daily sacrifice for lack of some means to prevent hrakemen being crushed to death in coupling cars.

Our instrument fully answers the purpose and maybe attached to every car at a trifling cost.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

In combination, the metallic rod F, provided with the hook f and the handle f the guard G intermediate f and f, the staple K or equivalent in car-platform B, the chain H,

connecting K and G, and the keeper L, sub- 75 stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDMOND KINT. JOHN W. HYDE. In presence of-- JAs. F. WILLIAMSON, EMMA ELMORE. 

